Great for beginner aquarists, tetras are attractive, hardy fish that come in a variety of colorations and patterns. Tetras are an active, peaceful, schooling fish that mix well with other community fish. They prefer to swim in schools of five or more. Tetras can share their aquarium with other community danios, rasboras, catfish and less aggressive barbs and gouramis.

Instead of plants, tetras eat aquatic crustaceans, worms and aquatic insect larvae. Vary their diet by including frozen or freeze-dried bloodworms, tubifex worms and other small worms, mosquito larvae and daphnia. You will see your tetras swimming in the middle of your aquarium. To create a beautiful environment, be sure to add some top and bottom swimmers as well. Ask a PetSmart associate to help you choose.

HabitatBrazil: Moderately decorate with rocks, live plants and driftwood.

BreedingFemales have a rounder and fuller body.

Additional CommentsKeep the Red Minor's well fed and any aggression problem they may have will be minimized immediately.

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Red Minor Tetra
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Good fish but nips
I got five of these guys and they school together and are really active with each other. They do nip the other fish in my tank I don't recommend this fish to people who want a long-finned fish.
June 7, 2014

There ok if u keep them away from calm fish
I have a 10 gallon tank that's filled with tetras, corifish, and some snails. I love tetras, I have 4 different species of tetras and I wanted to add one more so I got 2 red minor tetras because they looked really cool. They were good for the night swimming around and looking at their new home but the next day I see one of them all beaten up and his fins torn up, I was like what the heck so I looked around to see who was doing it and it was the other red minor tetra. I was watching him for a while and looking at my other fish and some had their fins nipped at and then I see him trying to nip at my neon tetras (but there to fast :o) so I really don't know what to do. I might just take them back to the store and get a different species of tetra if they don't continue to stop.
January 21, 2014

amazing fish!
i got these bad boys on sale! i saved 33 dollars on 13 of them. i love these fish. they were very pale when i got them from the petsmart near my house. which is to be expected. being housed in such small tank with shared water filtration from all the others. with in a week they turned to their beautiful bright red color. they are very active and do shoal very well. they were kind of aggressive to my red wag platys but have since stopped fin nipping. they are back to being peaceful and havent had any problems with them nipping fins of even the new blue smokey angelfish juvis and bolivian rams i have added since.
October 25, 2013

Awesome!!
These our the oldest and coolest fish that we have had in 10 years! We started with a 10 gal tank with five of these, and and algee eater. They are little angels, who live about 5-8 years! I can train them, and even can hold them underwater! Later, on I purchased a 25 galon tank, with some daring tetras, and 2 mollies, and they have shown the other fish some tricks, so now I have a perfect tank! I would most definatly buy these fish! It is best to buy at least 4 at once, because they are very social cratures. Best buy ever!!!!!!!
September 10, 2013